text: * In 1920, Ellen Gleditsch was awarded Fridtjof Nansen's reward for outstanding research.
  * In 1948 she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Strasbourg.
  * In 1946 she was appointed a Knight of the 1st Class of the Order of St. Olav. 
  * In 1957 she became an honorary citizen of Paris.
  * In 1962, she was named an honorary doctor at the University of the Sorbonne, as the first woman ever.
  * In 1966, she was appointed an honorary member of the Norwegian Chemical Society.